Founded in 1948, the Montreal Gaelic Athletic Club (GAC) is the centre and heartbeat of Gaelic Games in the Province of Quebec. Our goal is to provide Montreal people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds, an opportunity to participate in Gaelic Games. All while having fun, safe and inclusive environment that embraces the community, amateur and volunteer ethos of the GAA. Ever since the foundation of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) in 1884, and even prior to that, we have archival evidence that Gaelic football was played in Montreal. However we have more concrete evidence that, from 1945 and onwards, Irish immigrants gave exhibitions of their native games at Fletcher Fields and at the old MAA grounds. We know that in 1948 the Montreal branch of the GAA was officially convened under the presidency of Martin Greene. Martin applied for, and in the next year received, official approbation from the president of the GAA in Dublin. Subsequently the American County Board of the GAA was established to include Montreal and Toronto in separate divisions. Division IV saw Montreal in competition on with teams from Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse. Both Montreal and Toronto fared well in international competition as we were equally enriched by an influx of young Irish immigrants. Each did in fact, on more than one occasion, win the American Championship in both football and hurling.